Inkscape is an&nbsp;powerful open-source drawing program suitable for making
figures for your math papers and lectures. In this talk I will discuss
some of the useful tricks and features that you can take advantage of in
this
software, as well as some things to avoid. This will be a live demonstration talk, please bring a laptop if you can.

Sage is widely considered to be the defacto open-source alternative to
Mathematica that is freely available for download to users on most
standard platforms at sagemath.org.
New users to Sage are also able to use its capabilities from any
webbrowser and
other useful Linux-only software by registering for a free account on
the Sage Math Cloud platform (SMC). In addition to providing users with
excellent documentation, Sage allows its users to develop spohisticated
mathematics applications using Python and
other excellent open-source developer tools that are well tested under
both Unix / Linux and Windows environments. In this two-week workshop we
provide a user-friendly introduction to Sage for beginners starting
from first principles in Python, though some
coding experience in other languages will of course be helpful to
participants. The main project we will be focusing on over the course of
the workshop is an extension of the open-source library provided by the
Tilings Gap Distributions and Pair Correlation
Project developed by the workshop guide at the University of Washington
this and last year. This application will allow participants in the
workshop to hone their coding skills in Sage by working on an extension
of a real-world computational mathematics application
in statistics and geometry. Prospective participants can gain a
heads-up on the workshop by visiting the syllabus webpage freely
available for modification online at https://github.com/maxieds/WXMLTilingsHOWTO/wiki.
The workshop guide will also offer continued free technical support on
Sage, Python programming, and Linux to participants in the workshop
after the two-week session is complete.
Future AMS workshop sessions focusing on
other Sage programming topics may be run later based on feedback from
this proto-session. Faculty and postdocs are welcome to attend. See you
all there on Friday!

Join us for a discussion of making professional mathematics diagrams and
illustrations with free vector graphics editing software Inkscape.
We'll discuss and tinker with Bezier curves, TexTex, and vectorization
of scanned images.

All of us have seen talks where the speaker uses slides. Some are great,
and some are awful. Come and learn how to make great slide decks and
how to avoid making awful ones. We will share a number of pieces of
software that are easy to use and that can help
you to improve your slide decks. We will also discuss best practices
and dissect several short slide decks together. Next week there will be a follow-up, hands-on workshop on using the software Inkscape to create mathematical
figures for talks, posters, and papers.

Dr. Hurth is a recent graduate of the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics. After his talk, the AMS Graduate Chapter is taking Dr. Hurth to dinner at Gordon Biersch. Graduate students and others interested in speaking to Dr. Hurth are invited to join us. If interested, please RSVP to JD Walsh (in person or at <a href="mailto:walsh@math.gatech.edu">walsh@math.gatech.edu</a>).

Dr. Hurth will talk about two relatively simple, related switching systems: one in 1D, the other in 2D. For both systems, he will sketch how to analyse the density of the associated invariant measure. This is straightforward for the 1D-example, but proves somewhat unexpectedly difficult for the 2D one.

Many graduate students struggle to identify a thesis or dissertation
topic. We'll talk about how to choose wisely. Using his own experiences
as an example, JD will describe how graduate students and others
interested in research can use what they know to identify promising
topics and develop them into concrete proposals.
JD has been in
the Math Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech since 2012. Starting out with a
general focus on mathematics, he used directed study courses and other
university resources to identify his dissertation topic in less than a
year. He was awarded a 2014 National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship for his dissertation research proposal.

This is the first meeting of the newly formed AMS chapter at Georgia Tech. There will be refreshments provided by the AMS club. Robert will discuss Bergman spaces , Toeplitz operators and the Berezin transform and how they are related.